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I found this helped with some basics : https://affinityrevolution.com/affinity-photo-for-beginners-tutorial/ and Dave Eagle repeated via youtube :
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Welcome Mohamed, quite a long thread here:
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What's on the other end of the top cable and what's the connector on the EQ6R. Be careful with polarity, I would have thought a suitable cable would be supplied with one of the items but........ Picture heavy thread here may help EDIT: perhaps something like this ? https://www.firstlightoptics.com/astronomy-cables-leads-accessories/lynx-astro-silicone-power-cable-21mm-dc-jack-to-gx12-2-dc-jack.html
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Your welcome @rohanpai, and welcome to SGL. Looks a great project do keep us posted with your progress.
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A very compressive and possibly more than you are looking for, mac/windows/linux and free; DaVinci Resolve Near the bottom of the page for downloads, runs on my i5 laptop, had to add a card to my i5 desktop........ Some guides under the training tab.
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Arun's last login was October 2018, earlier posts of his reference http://wondroussky.blogspot.com/ that may be helpful ? Did find this an this ain't the internet wonderful..............
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Using Sony A6500 for astro imaging with a computer
Mick J replied to Karen Johnson's topic in Discussions - Cameras
As I have a Sony A6000 camera and a Windows 10pro 64bit laptop, have played with Ascom and APT in the past, am in lockdown and it’s damp out……. Why not give it a go eh. Download the latest versions of Ascom, APT and Doug Henderson’s Ascom driver for Sony. Install Ascom with the few extras it needs, had to adjust my virus software to allow the install. Install APT and install the camera driver. On the camera set to Manual and bulb mode (I seem to have a menu option in camera settings to turn long exposure noise reduction and high ISO noise reduction to OFF in manual mode) and set picture quality, set iso, set aperture and set usb mode to PC Remote. USB cable twix camera and laptop, open APT, click connect to camera, Ascom camera and Sony mirrorless chosen. Click Properties and chose target APT and set output mode. I can now set number of frames, length and interval in APT and picture shows in frame after exposure, I am unable to zoom. I set up 4 x 300 second shots with 10 second intervals and that works, Raw & jpg saved to laptop, run 3 x 700 second with 10 second intervals and that works, used 80% of battery so that wants looking at. Conclusion is the driver works for me with APT and my A6000. Some links: Wiki GitHub Supported Cameras -
That's good news, available here, I also noticed the books are 30% off as well plus £2.99 postage.
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Until 6th December, Black Friday deal.
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Using Sony A6500 for astro imaging with a computer
Mick J replied to Karen Johnson's topic in Discussions - Cameras
Not in the book Karen, APT forum and GitHub possibly This Don't know if this is helpful or a diversion. Canon 450D modified is good, my lad & I modified one a few years ago strangely he has just started using it again with a 135mm Samyang. -
Using Sony A6500 for astro imaging with a computer
Mick J replied to Karen Johnson's topic in Discussions - Cameras
Thanks Karen, I now have that. I have seen references to a Sony Ascom driver that may work with APT and Sharpcap, may be worth a search. -
Asteroid in M45
Mick J replied to nightster's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Nice thread, thanks to all. -
Using Sony A6500 for astro imaging with a computer
Mick J replied to Karen Johnson's topic in Discussions - Cameras
I picked up a used A6000 on eBay, still coming to terms with it. Far to many options and buttons, I updated the camera to V3.21 and can confirm using imaging edge no long exposure NR. Quite impressed with imaging edge but have not used the camera for any astro, lens or telescope. -
Using Sony A6500 for astro imaging with a computer
Mick J replied to Karen Johnson's topic in Discussions - Cameras
There is an old thread on the A5000, The last few posts on page 3 may be helpful, it may depend on model and having the latest software on the camera. -
The Squid with RASA8 and OSC - first two hours
Mick J replied to gorann's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
Wonderful picture and description Gorann (enjoy your supper - you have earned it), I cannot add to any of the above comments, I can only enjoy looking again at that squid. It's becoming a fishy thread. -
Help! 32-bit firmware drivers for a Mammut CCD
Mick J replied to Chris's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
hi Ryan and welcome - have you tried loading sharpcap software and trying it - long shot I know, should be a free version. -
EP24 - YouTube - A tour round Affinity Photo by Dave Eagle
Mick J replied to Grant's topic in StarGaZine
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Clear skies in Norwich, not sure about the hills. super nice, great idea.
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Great find @Quatermass
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Hi Madhura and welcome, the pole star can be found in the north sky, try this link https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Spolaris.htm Here we call the big dipper the plough, the pole star, Polaris will stay in the same position in the sky all other stars appear to revolve around it. You may find a phone app that helps, if you are to far south in India it may be difficult to find. The red star may be Mars, looking really nice and closer and bigger than usual.
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EOS 350D .. is it worth modding?
Mick J replied to pedromreis's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Complicated question, removing the IR filter will allow more 'red' light to the sensor, this may be what you want for some astrophotography, without a replacement using the camera for normal photography focus will be different. You may need some IR filtering, common replacement was a filter with a different cut off point, kept focus and allowed more red. I see Gary Honis replaced with clear glass on his 300D mod. Good luck with it. That's my understanding, this old thread will be worth a read, the 350D is not worth a lot these days so........ and yes a 450D may be a good place to start. -
Help printing out good quality
Mick J replied to 5haan_A's topic in Imaging - Image Processing, Help and Techniques
A lot also depends on the surface, we had an Acrylic and Aluminium 12"x12" print from photobox (I think) the gloss of the Acrylic was much preferred over the almost matt/semisheen Aluminium. -
UV LED for fungus treatment?
Mick J replied to jonathan's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Interesting idea, I see eBay has a China supplier of bulbs and UK supplier of the full kit half the price of Amazon, could not resist 😊